Sure you have friends. Sure people Like your pictures on Facebook and Instagram. Sure people favorite your tweets. But what would these people really do for you? None of ’em would take a bullet for you! Some would make a hashtag. All will talk about how much they miss you on their profiles. Sometimes, that’s enough for me. More »
You might remember last month when we talked a bit about the 3Doodler pen. This is a device that reminds me of a combination of a 3D printer and a hot glue gun. The 3Doodler uses strips of plastic to allow the user to build 3D objects only limited by their imagination.
The project got off to a thunderous start blowing out its Kickstarter goal of $30,000 in only a few hours. The first time we wrote about the product, it had raised about $600,000. Now with only a few weeks passed the project has over 23,000 backers and has raised over $2,060,000.
The most impressive part is that the project still has 19 days to go. The project is set to fund on March 25 and sadly, if you didn’t get in early, you are probably looking at about a year from now before you get your hands on the 3Doodler. This is one of the coolest products I’ve ever seen turn up on Kickstarter, so it could be worth the wait.
Here’s something we should all totally get behind: strangers drawing strangers Facebook profile pictures. Called Selfless Portraits, it’s an incredible art project that allows random people to draw other random people’s profile pic and collects them all in a gallery of side-by-side portraits. Some of them are wonderful. Others are hilarious. All of them are awesome. More »
I love timelapse drawings that explain complex things, like timelines or processes. They are usually mesmerizing and beautiful. This history of music is no exception. It’s brilliant. Although some of the technical terms are in Spanish, you will understand it all. [Thanks Oscar!] More »
Fancy yourself an artist? Well if you’re in need of a medium, you could always opt for “pizza.” A new website called “Paint Your Pizza” lets you turn horrendously impressionist MSPaint-inspired masterworks into theoretically delicious pizzas for the sophisticated stomach. More »
Evernote acquired the Penultimate app for iPad last year with the conspicuous goal of making handwritten notes as easy to synchronize as to-do lists and snippets from the web. After several months of silence, the newly reworked Penultimate 4 is the result. The drawing tool now treats Evernote not just as a sharing option, but an integral part of its being. While it’s possible to skip the sign-in, those who link their account get both cross-platform access to their work as well as cloud-based searches of their more legible writing. There’s likewise a simpler interface with more realistic pen input. Truth be told, however, we suspect that many of Penultimate 4’s would-be adopters will just care that the app is now free — as of today, the biggest cost is that of an optional Evernote Premium account. As long as they’re using an iPad running iOS 6, note takers yearning for the flexibility of a pad and paper in an era of cloud syncing and tablets can give Penultimate a try at the source link.
Filed under: Tablets
Source: App Store
If you think you can eat these gummy bears, you’d be wrong. They’re not real. As in they’re not actually gummy bears. Instead, the gummy deliciousness is actually an extremely photorealistic painting made by Jeanne Vadeboncoeur. So good. More »
Google loves inspiring kids to go wild with ideas in its annual Doodle 4 Google competition, and that tradition is carrying on for 2013. This year’s just-started drawing exhibition asks American kids to visualize what they imagine would be their best day ever — no mean feat, as you’ll see in the video after the break. The K-12 student who wins on the national level may find all that daydreaming worth the effort, however, as the top prizes are about as grand as they were for 2012. Along with seeing their drawing become the homepage doodle for a day, the top-ranking child gets a $50,000 technology grant for their current school, a $30,000 college scholarship, a Chromebook and a Wacom tablet to foster that now-obvious creative talent. Budding young artists need to get their entries to Google’s real or virtual doorsteps by March 22nd; we have a hunch the winner’s best day ever will be May 23rd, when millions of searchers will catch a glimpse of that early magnum opus.
Continue reading Doodle 4 Google 2013 challenges kids to dream big, describe their best day (video)
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Source: Doodle 4 Google
Griffin and Crayola are already best of friends through their ColorStudio HD collaboration for the iPad. They’re deepening that relationship at CES with a handful of iPad accessories and apps based around the quintessential crayon. Heading up the pack, the Crayola Light Marker you see above upgrades the earlier input by letting kids draw in the air; they can splatter (thankfully virtual) paint and play other games without scribbling directly on the tablet’s screen. A pair of cradles are joining the marker, including the Digital Activity Center portable lap desk (after the break) and the briefcase-like Color & Play Workstation. The software side is being rounded out with special Barbie and Hot Wheels versions of the ColorStudio HD app, each of which has drawings themed around the perennial favorite toys. Griffin expects the Light Marker, Digital Activity Center and Color & Play Workstation to reach young artists’ hands in the spring for $30, $40 and $20 respectively; the specialized iPad apps should arrive later in January, each for $3.
Continue reading Griffin and Crayola intro contact-free Light Marker, drawing workstations
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There’s a certain aspect of human creation, a quaint sort inconsistent imperfection, that most of us tend to think is exclusive to us meatbags. Turns out it’s not; computers can emulate that too, and these weird-looking cartoon faces you could swear were drawn by a five-year-old prove it. More »
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